Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927

by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, David Luft, David Luft

The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation called Hofmannsthal a "spiritual-moral authority" of a kind German culture had only rarely produced. This volume provides translations of essays that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557535906
• ISBN13: 9781557535900
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"